Summary: Bonfire night is upon us once again...so as usual the hospitals will have plenty to do dealing with burns and damaged eyesight...personally I cannot see the point of watching money go up in smoke to the sound of OOOH!... AHH!... from onlookers.......then idiots wouldn't be able to put them to misuse........ Speaking of which.... we have just had the wonderful American import "Trick or Treat" which brought out the youths of certain parts of Merseyside throwing bricks through car windows and throwing stones at houses causing pointless damage....and guess what....there wasn't ONE 70 year old involved....it was our wonderful youngsters who now think they can vote and run the country.... I watched the Rugby World Cup final last Sunday....I should have stayed in bed....It was hard work watching The Springboks slowly destroying England...I know it's easy to criticise from an armchair but as I have said on many occasions winning isn't everything....it's the ONLY thing.....we really needed to win that game which would have been a major boost for the sport... I do feel sport is slowly losing its way.......but as someone remarked on Facebook that they have often required the assistance of a doctor or a nurse but they have never required the assistance of a pop star or footballer....food for thought? I know this is only a minor point and there are far more important things to think about but I watched a programme about people buying property in Spain and the presenter kept wrongly pronouncing Benalmadena.....he KEPT referring to it as "Benalmadeena" and as you know the accent is on the "a" after the "m"..........similarly it's not THE Wirral where I live ...it's Wirral...and it's not The Menai StraitS....it's STRAIT...there's only one of it.......just saying. And on the subject of WIRRAL the song this week is one I wrote about it back in the day....it was a follow up to my Wirral Song which the then council made a substantial order...it was on vinyl as was this one and they sold them through their sports centres and libraries and it went well as a lot of people feel the same way about this little corner of the world...so here it is...Wirral Splendour.
